Dan Mullen throws more shade at Florida during Mississippi State game
Dan Mullen couldn’t help himself.
After all, the “Dan Mullen Bowl” was being played out on Saturday afternoon in Starkville, as a struggling Florida program played a struggling Mississippi State program in a Week 4 battle. Mullen is now safely behind a microphone as a college football analyst for ESPN, so he currently can’t lose any games.
But before leaving coaching — for now, at least — the 52-year-old Mullen was the head coach at Florida from 2018-21, and before he coached at Florida, Mullen was the head coach at Mississippi State from 2009-17.
So, Saturday’s SEC tilt gave Mullen an interesting vantage point, since it matched the 2 programs that he led over the past 15 years. Then when the answer to the Aflac trivia question was posted during the game, it caught Mullen’s particular attention. The question: When was the last time Florida and Mississippi State finished a season with double-digit wins?
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The answer, as you might have guessed, directly involved Mullen. The Bulldogs’ last double-digit win season came all the way back in 2014, when they went 10-3 under Mullen. And the Gators? Well, the last time UF managed double-digit wins was 5 years ago, an eternity in Gainesville, when the Gators went 11-2 in 2019 under, yep, Mullen.
When the answer to the question was tweeted out, Mullen naturally reposted the tweet.
And it wasn’t the first time this season a subtle retweet sent some major shade the Gators’ way.
Florida entered Saturday’s contest at 1-2 on the season, putting the future of Billy Napier very much up in the air. Florida held a lead going into the fourth quarter.
It should have also been noted that even though that is true, neither team is trying to hire him back.
I’m still trying to figure out just what the “shade” was from the self-proclaimed guru of all things CFB.
I guess maybe because Mullen tweeted that out? I think the writer may be on some of that moose dung.
LOL – tears running down my legs as I type!
Now that is good shade 79!
The facts are…. This is just not a great time for Florida to pull a disappearing act…. Georgia ain’t slowing down… Alabama don’t appear to be slowing down… Tennessee is once again the media darling… They appear to be set for a good run… Win the SEC run? Debatable!!!! Still even Vandy is no longer a guaranteed out… Big bad FSU is not big bad FSU… They are big REALLY BAD FSU!!!! LOL
No longer a quality win even if you win… It can be a really embarrassing loss though if your not careful…. Honestly I think the cocktail party could be closer than people think… Only because Florida will be a better team by then… And because it’s the cocktail party…. If Florida played everyone like they play Georgia… They might have a decent season…..
Anyway it’s a terrible time to be starting over… Even if you get Lane Kiffen… I’m not 100 % certain you’ll get him… I mean he can make the playoffs at Ole Miss… I’m not sure he wants that Florida pressure…. Ou & Texas joining the SEC doesn’t make it easier….. They won’t enjoy the SEC either…. LOL
PS. Just a terrible time to be starting over…..
Negan
Mullen is a P rick. He left a job that he could have kept forever with 8-9 wins a season, to go for more money and prestige at UF. UF does not settle for 8-9 wins a season, and Mullen was leading the program to ruin.
And he’s still full of himself.
Right now the admin is content to settle for 6 wins or less per season
And Les, they will continue to be until they hit the bricks too. No working strategy at the top + a coaching staff with no decisive tactics + a fan base with pitchforks = no paycheck at some point.
Doc the problem is the Gator brand even when the gators are terrible still fills the stadium and the TV $’s keep coming in. I believe the admin just cares about the $s not the fans or the wins on the field
Excellent point, Les. Ironic, isn’t it? That type of complacency has broken many brands before, with the end result being “sustained irrelevance”. We’ve been flirting with that for the last decade. Kind of like buying a beautiful new Corvette with a 3-cylinder engine under the hood and a 2-speed automatic tranny behind it …. cosmetics don’t win races even if the car looks like it can.
Les, NIL money is probably dropping like a rock.
JTF good point. That will quickly further undermine Florida’s competitiveness on the trail. But the school doesn’t pay NIL the boosters do. UF is still #8 in overall revenue with 190M thanks to football’s TV revenue, tix sales etc. The athletic department’s expenses are only 174M. So still very profitable. NIL won’t change that in the short run.
Actually, NIL is going to become less important when the schools start sharing revenue next year.
Anybody else remember how Mullen left for UF right around the time Ole Miss got hammered by the NCAA for paying a player that it turned out State had paid more? I always thought it was weird that I never heard much talk about that.
You’ve no doubt been in court enough times to know that the criminal’s default setting is to blame it on somebody else and then get out of Dodge as quickly as possible.